Family-Centered Early Intervention Deaf/Hard of Hearing (FCEI-DHH): Guiding Values
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Abstract
This article is the second of eight articles in this special issue on Family-Centered Early Intervention (FCEI) for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and their families, or FCEI-DHH.Five foundational values that guide FCEI-DHH are described, providing an evidence-informed, conceptual context for the 10 FCEI-DHH Principles and other articles presented in this issue.These values are applicable for Early Intervention (EI) Providers and other professionals on FCEI teams, as well as for FCEI-DHH programs/services and systems.The five key values include (1) being family-centered, (2) responding to diversity, (3) involving invested parties, especially families and individuals who are DHH, (4) supporting holistic child development, and (5) ensuring fundamental human rights.These evidence-informed values are considered essential to the effective provision of FCEI-DHH supports.This is the second of eight articles that comprise a special issue on Family-Centered Early Intervention (FCEI) for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), or FCEI-DHH.This article highlights the rationale for provision of FCEI-DHH supports for families with children who are DHH, defines key terms relevant to FCEI-DHH, describes the Guiding Values upon which FCEI-DHH supports and interventions are built, and provides international resources that can be used to justify the establishment and implementation of FCEI-DHH across the globe.Hintermair et al., 2017;Jackson, 2011).Based on the evidence of these benefits, FCEI-DHH is strongly endorsed. Key constructs in FCEI-DHH FamilyWhen the term "family" is used in this article and throughout the special issue, it is intended in the broadest possible sense.Simply put, "family" can be anyone the family identifies as being part of their family.This may include diverse configurations, multiple generations, and/or community kinship relationships (see Sass-Lehrer, Porter, & Wu, 2016;Störbeck & Young, 2016, and Value 2 of this article).Understanding the broad and diverse nature of "families" is critical to the effective implementation of FCEI-DHH and to truly "being family-centered" (see Value 1 of this article).Furthermore, there is considerable variation across the globe in families' cultural backgrounds as well as in individual and societal conceptualizations of family (see Szarkowski & Moeller, et al., 2024, Support Principles, this issue). LanguageThe term "language" involves the use of spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols to participate in culture and express one's ideas.Language is learned through a f lexible process of coconstructing meaning and knowledge through social interaction with others (Brea-Spahn & Vaz Bauler, 2023).Around the globe, families of children who are DHH communicate in diverse languages in their homes and communities.They may use a single language or multiple languages, including languages that are signed and spoken (Bowen & Baker, 2022).Ensuring that cultural and linguistic diversity is acknowledged, respected, and addressed in FCEI-DHH is critical to preserving the dignity of the family and their fundamental rights as human beings (see Szarkowski & Moeller et al., 2024, Cultural & Global Implications, this issue, Value 5). Overview and definitions of the Guiding Values of FCEI-DHHFive overarching values are considered essential for the implementation of FCEI-DHH.This article identifies and describes these five values, establishing a conceptual foundation for the 10 FCEI-DHH Principles that follow in this special issue (the 10 FCEI-DHH Principles are described across three articles: Moeller et al., 2024, Foundation Principles; Szarkowski & Moeller et al., 2024, Support Principles; Szarkowski et al., 2024, Structure Principles, this issue).The five Guiding Values include (1) being family-centered, (2) responding to diversity, (3) involving invested parties, especially families and individuals who are DHH, (4) fostering holistic child development, and (5) ensuring fundamental human rights.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.049 | 0.060 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".